Perceptual Variance in Color Perception

This is a news story, published by Yahoo, that relates primarily to Hilary Hilary Putnam news.

Hilary Hilary Putnam news

For more Hilary Hilary Putnam news, you can click here:

more Hilary Hilary Putnam news

physics news

For more physics news, you can click here:

more physics news

Yahoo news

For more news from Yahoo, you can click here:

more news from Yahoo

About the Otherweb

Otherweb, Inc is a public benefit corporation, dedicated to improving the quality of news people consume. We are non-partisan, junk-free, and ad-free. We use artificial intelligence (AI) to remove junk from your news feed, and allow you to select the best science news, business news, entertainment news, and much more. If you like physics news, you might also like this article about

unique green

. We are dedicated to bringing you the highest-quality news, junk-free and ad-free, about your favorite topics. Please come every day to read the latest colors news, green news, physics news, and other high-quality news about any topic that interests you. We are working hard to create the best news aggregator on the web, and to put you in control of your news feed - whether you choose to read the latest news through our website, our news app, or our daily newsletter - all free!

pure green

The Conversation

•

Science

Colors are objective, according to two philosophers − even though the blue you see doesn’t match what I see

Summary

Nutrition label

84% Informative

There is a surprising amount of variation in how people perceive the world, says Hilary Hilary Putnam and Willard van Orman .

They argue that colors are as objective as length and temperature, but perceptual variation has misled you, they say.

To determine whether two objects have the same color, an observer would need to view the objects side by side against the same background and under various lighting conditions.

Elay Shech and Michael Watkins : If something is indispensable to science, it must be real and objective otherwise, science wouldn’t work as well as it does.

We suggest that color plays an indispensable role in evolutionary biology, they say.

In sum, our ability to determine whether objects are colored the same or differently and the indispensable roles they play in science suggest that colors are as real as length and temperature.

VR Score

Informative language

Neutral language

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful